World War II veterans pay respects at US cemetery in Normandy
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- Harold McMurran of New Market, Alabama, almost didn't make the trip for the 75th anniversary of D-Day, but said the visit had brought him some peace.
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World War II veterans return to Normandy for 75th D-Day anniversary: 'You can't forget'
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As a Russian and as a grandson of WWII veterans I have to pay respect for our American allies.
Wish you the very best to you, American grandpas!
Me too brother as a american Born Bela Russian nothing but respect to our US allies, all involved sacrificed so much so we can live like we live today
Nice of you - but the Americans did nothing compared with the Russians and the USSR.
@@peace-now Hi, frankly speaking, Russia (Soviet Union) sacrificed many lives for victory. But US was engaged in struggle against Empire of Japan. Amirican success in the Pacific war theater helped USSR, secured our back. Also US helped USSR with wide range of supplies.
@@ilyagritsenko1232 I completely agree with everything you say here. The US struggle against Japan was very important and in some cases risky for them, as in the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Coral Sea. The US also helped deliver crucial supplies to the USSR, which helped the Red Army defeat the Germans. Also, Poland, India, New Zealand and France created a diversion in Italy, which made the D Day operation very easy. It should also be pointed out that the invasion was very late and should have been done in 1942 when Stalin wanted it.
@@peace-now many nations took in the battle against nazism; China, Thai guerrillas, Serbian Chetniks, guerrillas and resistance movement across Europe and Asia. Many people across the world did what they could do.
I came across this post today and was, as I am whenever I see something about our brave military personnel from WWII, overcome with emotion. Those buried in that cemetery were 17, 18, 19 and young 20 somethings who gave their lives on D-Day 1944. When my father, a WWII veteran, visited the cemetery, he broke down when he looked at the first cross he saw that identified the body of a 17 year old soldier that gave his life on June 6, 1944. God bless every person who served in WWII, the "Greatest Generation" America ever produced.
My grandfather served in the Navy during pearl Harbor as a Torpedoman. He raised me by himself and passed away in 2005.
He was a very good man with a heart of pure gold. I wholeheartedly have the utmost respect for all of the servicemen who served in the military.
Thanks for their service,
Rip for all who lost there live there
16 thumbs down. Why ? God bless these men. The living and the dead. 🇺🇸
they all nazis living in America
I'm honored to have watch these Brave Men returning to Normandy landings
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I Promise we will Never Forget!!
I still feel bad for all of those people who lost there lives in world war II... Im so happy that we have what we have today... But im sad that so much people had to lose there lives... To save us.. Thank you for everything..❤❤❤
cookie_ playz I cant really decide if David Muir or Tom Brokaw had a better report here from Normandy?
@@hollypietrzak5214you're focusing on something that is irrelevant
They saved the world then came home and built a nation. Such amazing men.
Saved the world? Had Chamberlain not declared war on the Germans, things would have fizzled out, as they usually do. There would have been no atom bombs on Japan, no Holocaust, no attacks on the Soviet, no 55 million people killed. Thank God there are no Chamberlains around now.
@@peace-now you wouldn't know the truth if it took a shit in your lap
Robert Richardson no Robert you must look past what you have learned in schooling, the Germans went to war with Russia because they were a communist threat . As for the Poland invasion I blame that on the Versailles treaty
RIP
Robert Jackson
1930 - 2019
My late grandpa was a WWII Airmen. He died in cancer. He once said to me, we never wanted to go to war but we had to, for the Allied and for Europe. He gave me his WWII Diary and his medals. Unfortunately he died two years ago. Here is something he said to me the last time I saw him.
"When I die, dont cry becuase I am gone, smile becuase I was here" a few weeks later he died.
“The greatest generation!”
Greetings from Russia to all British, US and Canadian Vets D-day-their day My father was a tankman He dead in 2012 92 years old
Sorry for your lose
Donald E Simmons PVT 4143 Died June 6 1944. Remember him.
aikighost respect to you and your family , my grandfather who was in the 101st airborne best known as the screaming eagles 🦅 landed in Normandy as well broke his ankle when he landed fought on the beaches blown out of a fox hole and ended up in the same military hospital as his brother ...
RIP Never forgotten .
hey might be coincidence but my last name is simmons, and my fathers side(simmons side) has a very long military history.
5:37- I almost cried that was beautiful thank you guys for coming back together to bring peace set by God to you after all these years 🖖🤝👑👊🤘🤙👌👍
I was actually there with those guys (one of them is my grandfather). It was a very moving experience
Your grandfather is a hero as are all alive and passed. Tell him thank you from an old Texas gal. God bless him
My great uncle was there, I wish I had known so I could have gone with!
I’ve warned Mummy that I’m going to Normandy next year and she said “Why would you want to do that?!” I wasn’t pleased how she couldn’t except
Thank y’all for y’all service and god bless America and thanks to all our military
What a wonderful and inspiring video - All schoolchildren should be made to sit and watch this, so that they can understand what these people did 75 years ago to secure freedom.
Grace be with all those who served and contributed. Highly honorable.
I want to thank the veterans for their service and my freedom thank you so much
Warriors amongst men. Their service and sacrifice shall never be subdued. Thank you to all who served in WWII including both of my grandfathers. USA loves you.
Huh? They were 18 year olds who came in when victory was assured, and fought an easy war in sun shiny France with wine, woman and song. From the US perspective, the brave guys fought in Guadalcanal and on the USS Lexington.
@@peace-now huh? nice delusion of grandeur you think the US/Canada/British troops had on D Day. they may have came in as 18 year old kids, but those who made it out from D Day left those shores as battle hardened warriors. you tell me what you think of yourself when you have a line of MG42s in strategically placed Nazi bunkers faced your way in a foreign area while leaving a boat in the sea during a world war. you would think victory is assured? you aren't thinking victory is assured, you're thinking how the fuck do i get the hell out of here or how the fuck do we press on. your easy dismissal of how brave the folks who were on the offensive in normandy is disillusioned. they came in that fight as kids on a mission, and they made it out as battle hardened warriors forever remembered in the history of the world.
@@slowmanEF D Day heroes at work. They called the Germans "spies".
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@@slowmanEF And remember mortar rounds raining the beach heavy artillery firing
Thank you for your Service!
For that peace in that we life now!
-Respect from Germany!
ImZeroSHD fuck you nazi
@@TheNobleExotic Oh. And are you a racist amerikan white police man who hates blacks? Becouse stereotypes. Not all Germans were part of NSDAP. Search Erwin Rommel for starters
I'm not crying.....
I'm not......
Has tears in my eyes just to think about it.
The Band Of Brothers, the fight for freedoms cause is the greatest endeavor that mankind will ever have a need for.!!! Thank you, Veterans, you all are so loved, and your service is still worth so much to our nation.!!!
Glad they did not drown when they stormed the beaches of Normandy. . They have balls of solid steel. . The Greatest generation! Salute!
Just an endless stream of tears watching the ceremonies and tributes to these EXTRAORDINARY men .. God Bless them all
Never forget 🇺🇸
Men of few words.....Greatest generation.
Undying respect for all men of the Greatest Generation who sacrificed so much.
God bless the fallen and the ones that returned.
Those man, all
give some and some give all. So much respect. Thank you al for youre service. From the Netherlands.
No one can pay with each of you guys thank Yhu for your service for our life and freedom
We thank all of the ww2 soldiers for doing a huge sacrifice for us years ago and to make the brightest future we have today💖💖
Thank you for your service and sacrifice and may the loved ones and families rest in peace😢😢😟
Who ever read this comment god bless u :)💖💖
What about the sailors? Germans are WW2 soldiers also. Do you thank them too?
SugarTomAppleRoger Germany started WW2 but somewhat with respect because many didn’t want to fight and were forced to
@@peace-now can you shut up
@@peace-now stop being so butthurt
@@peace-now No, I do not "thank" the soldiers of Germany because they were ideologically wrong, but I do respect all soldiers who fought and died for their country.
The greatest generation.... Tough as nails... Something the kids today could learn from... Humility, Respect, Honor, and Decency.
Thank you for your service God bless
Wonderful !!
AIRBORNE!!
Retired MSG 30 year
3 time Vetran.
These men sacrificed EVERYTHING and freed France, they will never be forgotten
God bless these men
Our hearts goes surely where sights can't reach. I realize Heroes has no colour nor race no any boundaries or frontiers. 21GunS.Respect!!!
WW II and Korea! Incredible heroism. We owe them everything.
Yes God Bless them All n my Black Brothers tht fought along side of everyone else n came home n still was mistreated as tho they never serve for Justice n Liberty for all ,I can imagine how they felt ,but it was always said alot of them stayed in Europe becuz they were treated better over there ,than comin bck here bein second class citizens n bein mistreated n still looked down on
The greatest generation......Thank you for saving the world 🌎!
Respect.from the younger generation, thank you for your sacrifice. I will never forget your generation.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Ned, "Amen" my friend
@@alunhughes2632 "Amen"
@@d.b.1858 👍
His friend was so close to seeing peace but atleast he saw peace up high
Mr Zicari does not look like he’s in his late 90s. He looks late 70s at least. Aged well, thank you for your service 🇺🇸
This was beautiful. Thank you to ABC news for honoring these heroes.
men, 5:02 this touch me so bad, im so deep in the history of the war. i respect them so so much and remember each of all souls that put there sacrefice in it. not knowing what was coming, and myself im so scared that in 20 years or maybe less. those generations that are alive in that time, wont be interested and want to know the history that get them where they standing then, because it prob, wont get taught on school to kids anymore....
i will visit there soon, and let my respected energy go free there for them. and give thanks for everything.
this must never been forgotten, like more thing in the past, and the days today.... much love from the netherlands,
Im in tears just hearing one didn’t come back made me break down
I went to the d day 75 I met the guy named buck price 3:19 he signed a paper for me as well as other veterans, he is a really nice guy, I'm glad I met him
My grandmother is taking me to Normandy for the 80th anniversary in 2024. I’m dreading it
Thank You so much men of honor from all allied nations who served, words alone could not express gratitude or come close to measure your courage and sacrifice.
Gratitude is eternal!...
Thank you all, brave soldiers.
Let each one of us have a SERIOUS moment of silence for everyone who UNFORTUNATELY could not....did not or will not make it home !!!! 😭😭😭😭
Thank you to not only our American hero’s but the hero’s from all countries who also stormed the beaches that day. Always remember the men who lived to fight another day and those who gave their lives fighting for the greater good of the world and forever changed history so that we could live in the world we live in today.
Thank you for everything veterans
I watched this on TV and I cried my eyes out. I couldn't make it through the video without doing it.
Amazing generation Thank You!
Thank you sir!
Thank You , you are our heroes
As a grandson of WW2 family members, let’s also never forget the African Americans soldiers that we also there as well
I used to have a client in physical therapy who drove a sherman tank on d day at juno beach , the stories he told me , RIP Bill
Bless 'em all...
My brother is 19 and I can’t even think of him being there
Respect & gratitude
I have a dear friend of mine from Milton, FL whose dad was a medic on D-Day. His dad was 96 when he passed away and refused to talk about what he saw as what he saw was horrific for sure. He took his war experiences to the grave with him.
Respect..
i cant lie if was there in D-day and now that im old visiting those places again will make me cry
thank you for your service. and thank you for keeping this history alive.
Anyone without a tear in their eye after this video spits in the face of these brave men and those that gave their lives. Let us never forget the the sacrifice of these soldiers and those who earned their final reward through the Gates of St. Peter.
Respect.
Nobody with an ounce of feeling can’t help but get choked up seeing these few men return to the place that was, without a shadow of doubt, the scene of the most horrific and frightening event of their lives, and sitting in the final resting place of the most courageous generation to ever live must have given them some small measure of serenity, but also great sadness.
Thank you all, veterans past, present and future, I thank you for your service and sacrifice. Lest We Forget. 👍🇬🇧🏴👍
Eternal rest Grant them Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they and all our faithful departed, rest in peace 🙏🌹🕯️
Thank u guys
Thanks from Liverpool England in this country they are taken tv licences of over 75s this week last week they were praising them for D DAY and saving the free world in ww2.
What my great grandfather Fred he lives in Bismarck North Dakota
America will never forget d day God bless
Respect from Vietnam.
Respect full :')
These brave soldiers fought for my freedom!!!
Goosebumps...
I will teach my kids about this guys. I promise.
It must be surreal as hell to go back to the exact spot where hell was unleashed on earth, a place you bravely fought and witnessed such carnage, and to see it as now a peaceful and maintained tourist attraction
The real heroes!
My Great Uncle Julian Strand Died during the Normandy Landings on D-Day of German - occupied France in Europe along with my Grandpa which was my Dads Dad that was in Patton’s Third Army, he fought all the way though the Battle of the Bulge but he got to come back home...
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Eterno rispetto per questi eroi!
For the 85 million people who died in WW2, May they rest in peace.
👍🏽👨🏼✈️✌️ thank you dear WW2 veterans 😻👨🏼✈️✌️🐶
2:20 🇺🇸✝️rip to everyone who passed away in ww2
History is a Running cinema. Sometimes it gives us interest and sometimes it gives us pain. History is unavailable to give us good lesson because The world is never free from war.
I'm Proud The Veteran Army WW2😢😔😭
WW II and Korean War. Thank you so much for your service
- From Korean immigrant
It breaks my heart that soon there will be no living WW2 veterans. It truly makes me sad in an existential way.
Never forget.
Big men respect
GOD BLESS AMERICA
R.i.p
RESPECT FOR VETERANS AND HEROES 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 WORLD WAR 2 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
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Heroes
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